I ... would love to see a Terry Gilliam Aliens-style movie. He’s usually much more slapsticky, but he has a lot of baroque tendencies. Send him all the Giger art and get him to commit to being dark and scary and see what happens. Worst case scenario, it’s merely a fascinating mess.

It’s a terrible movie with a great Charles S. Dutton performance in it.

There are probably very few films he wouldn’t be a bright spot in.

“And while we’re at it, Resurrection isn’t so bad, either.”

I am glad that Ahmed is getting the success he deserves. Here’s hoping he gets the chance to write more novels. I loved, loved, loved his first one.

G’oop!

And speaking of Baltimore Sun copy editors, for the media types, this book, from the Sun’s copy chief, is gold. You get his grumpiness (and good copy editing advice) in handy portable form: The Old Editor Says

I have three female coworkers who all managed to scrimp and save and buy their own homes before they turned 30. None of the men with comparable jobs managed that.

I don’t know what everyone’s salaries are, but at least in my anecdotal case, my female coworkers definitely have their financial crap together way more than…

Read your local paper. You’re getting that kind of civic coverage from the people remaining while print ad dollars and subscription money flows to national publications.

“You know what the Great Gray Lady needs more of?”

“What?”

“More profiles of 1 percenters on the Upper East Side.”

“Brilliant!”

Just as long as they include the appropriate amount of Office-style glances toward the camera.

Episodes 1-10: Reporter laboriously covers difficult and important story, including convincing management it’s worth pursuing despite it not being an obvious traffic-driver, and gets voices from all sides of the issue and…

Ironically, David Simon was bemoaning how far the Sun had fallen with that season, but the paper, as portrayed there, looks positively packed with people compared to almost every newsroom in America now, many of which have zero people with the title of “copy editor,” as those duties have been assigned to other people…

The great Dungeoncraft articles back in Dragon magazine, back in the day, recommended every NPC get one secret. It doesn’t have to be a big one — not everyone should be involved with the Dark Lord, or whatever — but if the innkeeper is weird when you ask where to buy new armor, your PCs will start getting invested in…

Paladins’ bad guy detection abilities have been the bane of DMs since they were introduced.

*eke

A druid with demonic blood is hard to get my head around. (But I’m admittedly not an anime fan.)

Trump is supposed to be the same height as me, and I was briefly at the weight he supposedly he is. He looks like he ate me at my maximum weight.

But it’s also not outlandish to think that a physician with no management experience may not be suited to run a bureaucracy that employs 370,000 workers and provides healthcare and other benefits to millions of veterans—particularly if he has also overseen a problematic work environment.

Well, now I know my plan for Halloween.

“Also, if I need to get my in-game mail, I might as well be standing on top of the mailbox, naked and dancing.”

I don’t know how to feel about him until I know whether he plays Alliance or Horde as his main character.